LARB: So gripping that it’s hard to put the book down
“The novel is both story and history, which prove inseparable, as the young life of our heroine, Marina Makarova, is upended first by the Russian Revolution and later by the Civil War. … Marina’s unlikely bildungsroman — her growth, her loves, her dreadful losses and disappointments, but, above all, her enduring hope and determination to survive, against all odds — proves so gripping that it’s hard to put the book down.”
“Lust, Blood, and Survival in a New World: On Janet Fitch’s 'The Revolution of Marina M.'”
Ani Kokobobo, Los Angeles Review of Books
November 7, 2017